TY - BOOK AU - Louis H. Kauffman TI - Formal Knot Theory SN - 978048645020 U1 - 514.224 KAU-F PY - 2006/// CY - Mineola, NY PB - Dover Publications N1 - Introduction -- States, trails, and the clock theorem -- State polynomials and the duality conjecture -- Knots and links -- Axiomatic link calculations -- Curliness and the Alexander polynomial -- The coat of many colors -- Spanning surfaces -- The genus of alternative links -- Ribbons knots and the Arf invariant -- Appendix: The classical Alexander polynomial -- References -- Supplement: Remarks on formal knot theory -- Appendix: New invariants in the theory of knots ER -